Palin: "I smell like a salmon for a large part of the summer"

[muriel_volestrangler]

Wasilla is what inevitably happens when there are no codes, no civic oversight, no planning, when the only governing principle in a community is a naive and superstitious trust in the benevolent authority of the free market. Palin’s view of aesthetics was nicely highlighted in 1996, a few months before she ran for mayor, when a reporter for the Anchorage Daily News happened to light on her in an excited crowd of five hundred women queuing up in the Anchorage J.C. Penney’s, waiting to snag the autograph of Ivana Trump, who was in town to hawk her eponymous line of scent.

‘We want to see Ivana,’ Palin said, who admittedly smells like a salmon for a large part of the summer, ‘because we are so desperate in Alaska for any semblance of glamour and culture.’

The blot on the Alaskan landscape that is Wasilla is the natural consequence of a mindset that mistakes Ivana Trump for culture.

http://www.lrb.co.uk/v30/n19/raba01_.html

It's a great article on Palin apart from that, but I had to share that tidbit with you.

[polichick]

1. She's as slippery as a salmon too.

[volstork]

2. Uh, sarah, you might want to

see a gynecologist about that.

[PCIntern]

3. I just threw up on my keyboard...

[David__77]

4. Blurg!

Oogley boogley! Gross!

[vanderBeth]

5. Blurgh

:puke:

[mcctatas]

11. I'm so glad someone else said it first...

:puke:

[greatauntoftriplets]

6. I thought there was something fishy about her.

Jonathan Raban is an excellent writer. Thanks for posting.

:hi:

[nam78_two]

7. ....

....:yoiks:

[jeanmarc]

8. You can wrap a fish in an old piece of paper and call it change(nt)

.

[DeadManInc]

9. They got medicine for that.

[Gold Metal Flake]

10. Locking: No sex threads.

[Beregond2]

12. You can't possibly have a gay best friend,

and not know better than to say something like that!